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Rail Transportation

Rail Transportation is gaining market weight. Gained weight for 1 consecutive month.

Historical time machine
Historical observation
20182026
SlowingConcentrated

Most of this industry's gains came from a few companies.

Universe weight
1.01%
$0.29T
12-month change
+0.57 pp
6-month change
+0.09 pp
3-month change
+0.03 pp
Company participation
67%
above their 6M weight average

Where did the weight change come from?

12-month contribution in universe percentage points · contributions add to the industry change

Company attribution
All other companies+0.298 pp
Industry total+0.566 pp

The three largest same-direction contributors explain 100% of gross gains. Opposing contributions can make an individual company’s change larger than the industry’s net change.

How has it moved through history?

Share of matched S&P 500 members

Jan 2018 – Feb 2022 · market weight (%)

0.00.61.120182019202020212022

Relative performance

Industry return versus ACWI · no future data shown

10112013820182019202020212022

Is participation broad or concentrated?

Actual constituent counts at this date, not the legacy synthetic breadth proxy

Above their 3M universe-weight average33%
Above their 6M universe-weight average67%
Above their 12M universe-weight average67%
Top 5 share of current industry market cap100.0%

This is size concentration, not contribution to the 12-month change. The attribution above measures the latter.

Evidence can disagree

Independent dimensions · no combined score or bullish/bearish verdict

Allocation · 12M+0.57 pp
Relative strength · 12M+6.7%
Price index return · 12M+14.9%
Earnings revisions · unavailable0.0
Allocation gained weight while relative performance rose. At least half of constituents are above their 6M weight average. These observations need not agree.
Other evidence and availability

Valuation data: unavailable; shown as zero placeholder.

Attention data: unavailable; shown as zero placeholder.

Actual fund flows: unavailable. No ETF, mutual-fund or institutional flow feed is connected.

Volume / turnover: unavailable in this dataset.

Follow the contribution to individual companies

Sorted by absolute 12-month weight contribution, not investment merit

CompanySub-industryCountryUniverse weight12M contribution12M price returnRevisions
Union Pacific Corporation →
UNP
Rail TransportationUnited States0.543%+0.268 pp+21.7%0.0
CSX Corporation →
CSX
Rail TransportationUnited States0.258%+0.211 pp+12.4%0.0
Norfolk Southern →
NSC
Rail TransportationUnited States0.213%+0.086 pp+3.4%0.0
Underlying monthly industry observations
MonthWeight1M change3M change6M change12M changeRelative return · 12M
Feb 20221.015%+0.008 pp+0.025 pp+0.087 pp+0.566 pp+6.7%
Jan 20221.007%-0.011 pp-0.018 pp+0.049 pp+0.492 pp+7.6%
Dec 20211.018%+0.028 pp+0.126 pp+0.182 pp+0.112 pp+5.1%
Nov 20210.990%-0.035 pp+0.062 pp+0.112 pp+0.052 pp-2.7%
Oct 20211.025%+0.133 pp+0.067 pp+0.144 pp+0.112 pp+2.3%
Sep 20210.892%-0.036 pp+0.056 pp+0.423 pp+0.891 pp-16.2%
Aug 20210.927%-0.030 pp+0.050 pp+0.478 pp+0.926 pp-8.1%
Jul 20210.957%+0.121 pp+0.077 pp+0.442 pp+0.956 pp-1.4%
Jun 20210.836%-0.041 pp+0.367 pp-0.070 pp+0.835 pp-0.5%
May 20210.877%-0.003 pp+0.428 pp-0.060 pp+0.876 pp+0.2%
Apr 20210.880%+0.411 pp+0.365 pp-0.032 pp-0.067 pp+1.8%
Mar 20210.469%+0.020 pp-0.437 pp+0.468 pp+0.468 pp+8.4%
Feb 20210.449%-0.066 pp-0.488 pp+0.448 pp+0.448 pp+3.0%
Jan 20210.515%-0.391 pp-0.397 pp+0.514 pp-0.465 pp-3.5%
Dec 20200.906%-0.031 pp+0.905 pp+0.905 pp-0.051 pp+3.5%
Nov 20200.937%+0.025 pp+0.936 pp+0.936 pp-0.026 pp+5.3%
Oct 20200.912%+0.911 pp+0.911 pp-0.035 pp-0.029 pp+6.2%
Sep 20200.001%+0.000 pp+0.000 pp+0.000 pp-0.954 pp+10.7%
Aug 20200.001%+0.000 pp+0.000 pp+0.000 pp-0.966 pp+4.4%
Jul 20200.001%-0.000 pp-0.946 pp-0.980 pp-1.041 pp-6.9%
Jun 20200.001%-0.000 pp+0.000 pp-0.956 pp-1.043 pp-4.3%
May 20200.001%-0.946 pp+0.000 pp-0.963 pp-1.106 pp-4.8%
Apr 20200.947%+0.946 pp-0.034 pp+0.005 pp-0.173 pp-5.0%
Mar 20200.001%+0.000 pp-0.956 pp-0.955 pp-1.098 pp-5.9%
Feb 20200.001%-0.980 pp-0.963 pp-0.966 pp-1.094 pp-4.9%
Jan 20200.980%+0.024 pp+0.039 pp-0.062 pp+0.382 pp+2.5%
Dec 20190.957%-0.007 pp+0.001 pp-0.087 pp+0.384 pp+4.0%
Nov 20190.964%+0.022 pp-0.003 pp-0.143 pp+0.365 pp+1.0%
Oct 20190.942%-0.014 pp-0.101 pp-0.179 pp+0.356 pp+0.3%
Sep 20190.955%-0.011 pp-0.088 pp-0.143 pp+0.343 pp-0.7%
Aug 20190.967%-0.075 pp-0.140 pp-0.128 pp+0.382 pp+5.7%
Jul 20191.042%-0.001 pp-0.078 pp+0.444 pp+0.002 pp+14.9%
Jun 20191.044%-0.063 pp-0.055 pp+0.471 pp+0.010 pp+18.1%
May 20191.107%-0.014 pp+0.012 pp+0.508 pp+0.065 pp+23.3%
Apr 20191.120%+0.022 pp+0.522 pp+0.534 pp+0.132 pp+30.2%
Mar 20191.098%+0.003 pp+0.526 pp+0.486 pp+0.118 pp+27.7%
Feb 20191.095%+0.497 pp+0.496 pp+0.510 pp+0.155 pp+32.5%
Jan 20190.598%+0.026 pp+0.012 pp-0.442 pp-0.344 pp+28.1%
Dec 20180.572%-0.027 pp-0.040 pp-0.461 pp-0.370 pp+22.2%
Nov 20180.599%+0.013 pp+0.014 pp-0.443 pp-0.343 pp+27.7%
Oct 20180.586%-0.026 pp-0.455 pp-0.402 pp-0.356 pp+23.7%
Sep 20180.612%+0.027 pp-0.421 pp-0.368 pp-0.330 pp+25.9%
Aug 20180.585%-0.455 pp-0.456 pp-0.355 pp-0.357 pp+19.5%
Jul 20181.041%+0.007 pp+0.053 pp+0.098 pp+0.098 pp+17.8%
Jun 20181.034%-0.008 pp+0.053 pp+0.092 pp+0.092 pp+12.6%
May 20181.042%+0.054 pp+0.101 pp+0.099 pp+0.099 pp+12.7%
Apr 20180.988%+0.008 pp+0.046 pp+0.046 pp+0.046 pp+5.6%
Mar 20180.980%+0.040 pp+0.038 pp+0.038 pp+0.038 pp+4.3%
Feb 20180.940%-0.002 pp-0.002 pp-0.002 pp-0.002 pp+0.9%
Jan 20180.942%+0.000 pp+0.000 pp+0.000 pp+0.000 pp+0.0%
How are these descriptive states defined?

Gaining / losing: 12-month weight change above +0.005pp / below −0.005pp. Direction and speed are separate dimensions, not mutually exclusive recommendations.

Accelerating / slowing: compare the most recent 3M change with the preceding 3M change. Accelerating means a positive change speeds up by >0.02pp. Slowing means the magnitude of movement declines by >0.02pp. A falling industry can also slow.

Reversing: the last two 3M changes have opposite signs, outside a ±0.005pp tolerance. Persistence counts consecutive same-direction monthly changes.

Broad / concentrated: company attribution, not a market-cap concentration shortcut. Concentrated means the three largest same-direction contributors account for ≥70% of gross same-direction changes; otherwise broad requires ≥60% of constituents moving with the industry. Other cases are mixed.

Weights use matched S&P 500 members’ market-cap estimates, based on SEC-reported shares available by each month-end and monthly closing prices. Companies without a matched price or share record are omitted, so the denominator is the matched sample rather than every index member. These are not official float-adjusted S&P weights. Flow is not measured.